Understanding the Fundamental Constituents of Matter (The Subnuclear Series, 14)

During July and August of 1976 a group of 90 physicists from 56 laboratories in 21 countries met in Erice for the 14th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the German Democratic Republic, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. The School was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research (MRST), the North Atlantic Treaty Organi­ zation (NATO), the Regional Sicilian Government (ERS), and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The program of the School was mainly devoted to the elucida­ tion and discussion of the progress achieved in the theoretical and experimental understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter. On the theoretical front we had a series of remarkable lecturers (C. N. Yang, S. Weinberg, G. C. Wick) attempting a description of finite size particles. Another group of lecturers covered such topics as the understanding of the new particles (H. J. Lipkin), whether or not jets really exist (E. Lillethun), and the unexpected A-dependence of massive dileptons produced in high-energy proton-­ nucleus collisions (J. W. Cronin). Two other outstanding questions were covered by E. Leader and G. Preparata respectively: whether strong interactions are still within the Regge framework, and if it is really possible to master strong interactions. A. J. S. During July and August of 1976 a group of 90 physicists from 56 laboratories in 21 countries met in Erice for the 14th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the German Democratic Republic, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. The School was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research (MRST), the North Atlantic Treaty OrganiƯ zation (NATO), the Regional Sicilian Government (ERS), and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The program of the School was mainly devoted to the elucidaƯ tion and discussion of the progress achieved in the theoretical and experimental understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter. On the theoretical front we had a series of remarkable lecturers (C.N. Yang, S. Weinberg, G.C. Wick) attempting a description of finite size particles. Another group of lecturers covered such topics as the understanding of the new particles (H.J. Lipkin), whether or not jets really exist (E. Lillethun), and the unexpected A-dependence of massive dileptons produced in high-energy proton-Ư nucleus collisions (J.W. Cronin). Two other outstanding questions were covered by E. Leader and G. Preparata respectively: whether strong interactions are still within the Regge framework, and if it is really possible to master strong interactions. A.J.S Front Matter....Pages i-ix Critical Phenomena for Field Theorists....Pages 1-52 Monopoles and Fiber Bundles....Pages 53-84 Three Lectures on Solitons....Pages 85-114 Can We Ever Understand Hadronic Matter ? A Proposal....Pages 115-177 Can Pedestrians Understand the New Particles?....Pages 179-254 Are Strong Interactions Still within the Regge Framework?....Pages 255-288 Hadronization of Quark Theories....Pages 289-389 Phenomenology of Neutral Current Interactions....Pages 391-444 Weak Currents and New Quarks....Pages 445-483 Review of Massive Dilepton Production in Proton Nucleus Collisions....Pages 485-506 Are Jets Really There ?....Pages 507-536 Characteristics of μ − e + K° Events Produced by a Neutrino Beam....Pages 537-553 Hadron Physics at Fermilab....Pages 555-610 A Review of the ISR Results....Pages 611-661 Highlights of the Tbilisi Conference....Pages 663-682 Hadron Nucleus Collisions in the Collective Tube Model....Pages 683-699 Production of Dimuons by Pions and Protons at Fermilab....Pages 701-740 Physics with the Single Arm Spectrometer at Fermilab....Pages 741-775 Azimuthal Correlations in Particle Production at Low p⊥....Pages 777-797 Monopoles....Pages 799-839 Quarks, Color and Octonions....Pages 841-847 Field Theory Approach to the Statistical Bootstrap....Pages 849-877 Fifty Years of Symmetry Operators....Pages 879-892 Back Matter....Pages 893-915